This collection offers pianists on all levels an inexpensive and convenient single-volume compilation of waltzes in a variety of moods from such diverse composers as Bartók, Beethoven, Debussy, Fauré, Grieg, Hindemith, Schubert, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky. Highlights include Weber's 1819 "Invitation to the Dance," a brilliant arrangement of contrasting waltz themes; Dvor?ák's 1880 Waltz in E-flat, Op. 54, No. 8, which adds a Czech overtones to the dance form; ragtime renditions by Harry P. Guy and Scott Joplin; and an elegiac Valse by the youthful Billy Strayhorn, written before he discovered his jazz voice. COMPLETE CONTENTS: Invitation to the Dance (von Weber). 16 German Dances from Op. 33, D. 783 (Schubert). Waltz in E-Flat, Waltz in D (Beethoven). Waltz Op. 124/4 (Schumann). Valse Melancolique (Liszt). Waltz in A-flat Op. 42 (Chopin). Waltz in A-flat, op. 39/15, Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 39/6 (Brahms). Humoresque Op. 6/1 (Grieg). Valse-Caprice in E-flat (Rubinstein). Waltz in E-flat, op. 54/8 (Dvorak). Waltz in quintuple time Op. 72/16 (Tchaikovsky). Valse-Caprice No. 3 in G-flat (Faure). Echoes from the Snowball Club (Harry P. Guy). Valse Op. 38 (Scriabin). Valse in A-flat op. 71/2 (Coleridge-Taylor). Waltz: My dancing sweethert.., Op. 6/14 (Bartok). Pleasant Moments (Joplin). La plus que lente (Debussy). Viennese Dance no. 2 (Ignaz Friedman). Boston from Suite '1922', Op. 26 (Hindemith). Valse (Billy Strayhorn).